The Founders debated the filibuster and decided against it for good reason. It isn鈥檛 foundational to the way the Senate operates; it鈥檚 a relic of the Jim Crow era. You can鈥檛 keep asking people to vote for you if all you do is give them excuses every damn time. @TheDemocrats
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The Senate was an legislative chamber whose members were chosen by state legislature appointment, not democratic vote. It is not comparable to the nature of today's Senate
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Replying to @based_hoppean @TheDemocrats
Very comparable. How the senators got there is not relevant to the filibuster question.

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Replying to @marwilliamson @TheDemocrats
It does because the Senate was never meant to be a democratic institution. Besides, the first attempted filibuster was attempted in 1789, and then was formally codified into the Standing Rules of the Senate in 1806. Its threshold was lowered to 2/3 in 1917 and 3/5 in 2013
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